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title: 1 Samuel 6:17 (JPS 1917) — And these are the golden emerods which the Philistines returned for… · tree and pragmatics
description: And these are the golden emerods which the Philistines returned for a guilt-offering unto the LORD: for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Ashkelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one; Who acts: these, Philistines. 1 Samuel 6:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Samuel 6:17 · JPS 1917

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And these are the golden emerods which the Philistines returned for a guilt-offering unto the LORD: for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Ashkelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;

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**Who acts:** these, Philistines · **What happens:** be, return · **To what, where:** golden emerods

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This is 1 Samuel 6:17 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (these, Philistines), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:1SA:151
# text = And these are the golden emerods which the Philistines returned for a guilt-offering unto the LORD: for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Ashkelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	emerods	emerod	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Philistines	Philistine	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	guilt	guilt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
15	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Ashdod	Ashdod	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	parataxis	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Gaza	Gaza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Ashkelon	Ashkelon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
30	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	conj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Gath	Gath	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
34	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	conj	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Ekron	Ekron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
38	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	conj	_	_
39	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | these | the golden emerods |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **return** | past | the Philistines | the golden emerods |  |  |  | for a guilt offering; unto the LORD | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

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וְאֵ֙לֶּה֙ טְחֹרֵ֣י הַזָּהָ֔ב אֲשֶׁ֨ר הֵשִׁ֧יבוּ פְלִשְׁתִּ֛ים אָשָׁ֖ם לַֽיהוָ֑ה לְאַשְׁדּ֨וֹד אֶחָ֜דלְעַזָּ֤ה אֶחָד֙ לְאַשְׁקְל֣וֹן אֶחָ֔ד לְגַ֥ת אֶחָ֖ד לְעֶקְר֥וֹן אֶחָֽד׃ס

[1 Samuel 6:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.6.17/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1SA:151` of Mova's parse database.

**The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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